Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

Roland Hoensch wrote:
>
> I shall restrict myself so as not to flame.  But Your arrogance is
> quite infuriating.  I shall repeat:  English is not a world language.
What?  How can you possibly say that a language spoken by hundreds of
millions of speakers in countries on every continent is not a world
language?  No one ever said that it was THE world language, there are
others like Spanish and Arabic.

> The US does *not* have an authoritative dictionary.  If anything
> it would be the British Received Standard.  Why?  Because American
> English has Brance off of British English (much like Americans
> branched off of the British) and not vice-versa.
Uh, no.  British and American English branched off of a common
ancestreal form.  Just because the British have stayed in the same place
doesn't make them any better than us.  Englishmen in the 17th century
didn't sound like Englishmen today, or Americans, for that matter.

> And on a final note: I do not mean to institute an international spelling
> for English--but if I did, whether or not Americans like it/accept it would
> be my last concern.  If English were or will ever be a World Language,
> American opinions about it will be quite irrelevant, won't they now?
Uh, considering that Americans are the largest group of English
speakers, I think so.

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